| Ace Boggess |
Red Wine |
3 |
| Erik Anderson Reece |
No Deal |
4 |
| James Doyle |
Refusing the Wreath |
6 |
| Fredrick Zydek |
This Is Not A Vacation |
8 |
| Joyce Odam |
A Blur of Wept Images |
9 |
| Virgil Suarez |
Doña Inez in El Jardin de las Orquidias del Olvido |
10 |
| Ruth Latta |
Not A Trace |
12 |
| Maura Gage |
Directions |
13 |
| Bea Opengart |
Varieties of Religious Experience |
14 |
| Megan Burns |
First of the Month |
16 |
| Dave Brinks |
in dia monde |
18 |
| Dave Brinks |
in the meat the snow |
19 |
| Bryan Thorpe |
This Married Task |
21 |
| Michael McIrvin |
For An Ex-wife |
22 |
| Julie Parker |
Funding the Edge |
23 |
| Linda Bosson |
The Last Photograph |
24 |
| Edward Lowbury |
Birthday 200: For Alison |
25 |
| Meredith Trede |
Madonna And Child |
26 |
| Ray McNiece |
As We Fall Again |
27 |
| Sanford Fraser |
Blonde. |
28 |
| A.D. Winans |
Walking the Streets of North Beach |
29 |
| J.L.Kubicek |
72° North Latitude |
30 |
| Julie Parker |
In the Scale of Grief |
31 |
| Donna Baier Stein |
The Bear Paw |
32 |
| Janet McCann |
Wheelchair |
33 |
| Glen A. Mazis |
Basepaths |
34 |
| Edward Locke |
Country Road |
36 |
| Rebecca Raphael |
Kindling |
37 |
| H. Emilia Paredos |
#4 (from Breath) |
38 |
| Julie Grass |
Consumed |
39 |
| Jennifer Reeser |
Sappho's Ode to Anactoria |
41 |
| Greg Braquet |
Closet View |
42 |
| Christopher Thomas |
Garlands For Your Hair |
44 |
| Christopher Thomas |
Learning to Sleep in Each Other's Arms |
46 |
| Askold Skalsky |
Parallel Arts |
47 |
| Robert Jackson, III |
Dolphin |
48 |
| Bob Slaymaker |
My Wife Breaks Out |
49 |
| E.M. Schorb |
Ready to Walk |
50 |
| John N. Miller |
Oedipus in Corinth |
51 |
| Shoshauna Shy |
Friday Nights at Forty Peach Street |
53 |
| Ben Willensky |
Papageno in the Shower |
54 |
| Lyn Lifshin |
Writing Class, Syracuse Winter |
56 |
| Lyn Lifshin |
In the Second Letter He Said |
57 |
| David Spiering |
Ghazal to a Mannequin Walking |
60 |
| Mark Sheridan Maginn |
Prairie |
61 |
| Dane Cervine |
Sex on the Kitchen Floor |
62 |
| Ander Monson |
I Consider Gary Snyder in the Sauna |
63 |
| Tim Kahl |
The Convent |
65 |
| Francis Alix |
Celluloid Burns |
66 |
| E.W. Sims |
Strung Out |
67 |
| John Grey |
Aunt Elia Explains Emotions to a Jet Pilot |
68 |
| Michael McManus |
The Cafe |
69 |
| B.Z. Niditch |
Dutch Memory |
71 |
| Jon Parrish Peede |
Larkin to His Wife |
72 |
| Richard N. Bentley |
Anticlimax |
73 |
| Simon Perchik |
44 |
74 |
| Naton Leslie |
The Great Gatsby Goes to Jail |
76 |
| Beau Boudreaux |
Poydras Nursing Home |
78 |
| Beau Boudreaux |
Sailing Lake Pontchatrain |
79 |
| Linda Bosson |
What a Difference a "D" Makes |
80 |
| John Nixon, Jr. |
What Poets
Do
Back Cover |
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In Memory of Ben Jennings |
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| Ben Jennings |
The Pride Hotel |
81 |
| James Nolan |
My Wild Lover |
83 |
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Short Stories |
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| John Michael Cummings |
Overnight |
86 |
| Michael Greene |
Jesus with a Blow Torch |
91 |
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Personal Essay |
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| Sascha Feinstein |
Blouse Catching Smoke |
105 |
| Phyllis Parun |
Eroticism: Human Meets Divine |
117 |
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Essay |
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| Lenny Emmanuel |
I. My. Mine. Me |
129 |
| Ben Satterfield |
Language, Fiction, and the Puritan |
145 |
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Reviews |
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| Andrew Frisardi |
A Note on Tom Sexton |
162 |
| Josefa Salmón |
Alfredo de Palchi: Addictive Aversions Le vizione
avversioni |
166 |
